Blogging - the best social media resource for web workers
After all my experience with social media during the last few years, what I believe is best for promotion is a blog. Yes, I’m back to blogging as the answer to my promotional problems. I have two blog lists - which I cleverly titled the primary list and the secondary list. Pretty simple.
My primary list contains blogs that are actually making me money, and a few other blogs that get pretty good traffic, that I hope will someday make me money. These all have their own domain names and are hosted on my reseller account.
The secondary blogs are on OPS - “other people’s servers” and are not making me money.
To keep up with all the blogging I need to have a schedule. I want a weekly posting on every blog, so I divided the primary blogs up into five days leaving Saturday for my Blogger.Com blogs (I have several) and Sunday for secondary blogs, like this one.
My commitment to this weekly writing schedule is what makes all this work. I have a fluid to-do list maintained on a spread sheet, and I use a time-tracker software for several reasons. First, I like to know how much time all this blogging is taking out of my life. Second, I like being able to prove to family members that I’m actually doing something meaningful here on the internet, not just surfing game sites or wasting time with other meaningless pursuits.
Every web worker has to find a method that works for them. My spreadsheet to-do list is the most helpful I’ve found. Everything is there - including what I call my “guilt list” that contains references to anything I’ve wasted too much time feeling guilty about. My new motto is “Do It Now”! Yes, do everything possible now to avoid having a guilt list like mine!
Anyhow, blogging is my way of life. I do bookmark my blog articles and mention them on social media sites… but that’s incidental to actually building up blog content and bringing the seekers to the information they’re looking for on my home sites.
